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United States Patent | 6,049,621 |
Jain ,   et al. | April 11, 2000 |
The invention is a system and method for determining a correspondence between a point selected from a set of points extracted from one image and an another point selected from the second set of points extracted from another image based on similarity of relationships of attributes associated with segments attached to the points.
Inventors: | Jain; Anil K. (Okemos, MI); Hong; Lin (Lansing, MI); Bolle; Rudolf Maarten (Bedford Hills, NY); Pankanti; Sharathchandra Umapathirao (Mt. Kisco, NY) |
Assignee: | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Appl. No.: | 030345 |
Filed: | February 25, 1998 |
Current U.S. Class: | 382/125; 382/173 |
Intern'l Class: | G06K 009/00 |
Field of Search: | 382/125,115,124,173,209 |
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